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The overrepresentation of Indigenous individuals in the Canadian criminal justice system remains at a critical high. In fact, as the below study will tell you, this overrepresentation is still at a comparable level today as it was three decades ago. Despite the stated efforts of the federal government to address this crisis for close to …
Press Statement May 27, 2021 (source: Ontario.ca) “The Ontario government is taking further action to address the disproportionate rate of violence against Indigenous women and girls. The province has released a strategy developed in collaboration with Indigenous partners that reinforces Ontario’s commitment to act on the Calls for Justice in the Final Report of the …
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ByJill Croteau Global News There is growing widespread support for two sisters desperate for freedom. The Indigenous women were convicted of second-degree murder and sent to prison almost three decades ago. As Jill Croteau reports, they are getting support from a fellow Canadian who has been wrongfully convicted himself. Read full story here: ‘I just want …
Press Statement OTTAWA, May 18, 2021 – For over 28 years, Indigenous sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance have been imprisoned as a result of wrongful conviction in the murder of Anthony Joseph Dolff. Despite a lack of physical evidence, and the testimony of Jason Keshane stating he was responsible for the murder in 1993, Odelia …
“The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and advocates called for the release of two Keeseekoose women — who were given life sentences for a crime they say they never committed — at a press conference Tuesday morning. In 1994, Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were convicted of second-degree murder after the 1993 homicide of a 70-year-old farmer, …
Posted April 25, 2021 Source: John Howard Society of Ontario
Posted April 25, 2021 “When individuals are exonerated and attempt to reintegrate back into society, they often experience stigma in their communities. For example, exonerees have reported difficulty obtaining housing upon release. In Canada, because exonerees are not provided with a legal designation or written documentation that definitively proves their innocence, it is possible that …
For full press release visit: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2021/03/minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-takes-important-step-toward-creation-of-an-independent-criminal-case-review-commission.html
Announcement For those of you who were unaware, Mr. David Milgaard and I have been working together over the past year, advocating, following up on the creation of an Independent Criminal Case Review Board with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau & Justice Minister David Lametti, and working on an upcoming educational webinar series together. It is …